At all times and in all fields the explanation by fire is a rich explanation.
GASTON BACHELARDMan is an imagining being.
More Gaston Bachelard Quotes
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The words of the world want to make sentences.
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The spoken reverie of substances calls matter to birth, to life, to spirituality.
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A book is a human fact; a great book like Seraphita gathers together numerous psychological elements. These elements become coherent through a sort of psychological beauty. It does the reader a service.
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We understand nature by resisting it.
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Nobody knows that in reading we are re-living our temptations to be a poet. All readers who have a certain passion for reading, nurture and repress, through reading, the desire to become a writer.
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Rilke wrote: ‘These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them, as though with their growth it too increased.
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The night dreamer cannot articulate a cogito. The night dream is a dream without a dreamer.
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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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The reverie would not last if it were not nourished by the images of the sweetness of living, by the illusions of happiness.
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There are reveries so deep, reveries which help us descend so deeply within ourselves that they rid us of our history. They liberate us from our name. These solitudes of today return us to the original solitudes.
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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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Every corner in a house, every angle in a room, every inch of secluded space in which we like to hide, or withdraw into ourselves, is a symbol of solitude for the imagination; that is to say, it is the germ of a room, or of a house.
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Our house is our corner of the world.
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To disappear into deep water or to disappear toward a far horizon, to become part of depth of infinity, such is the destiny of man that finds its image in the destiny of water.
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When the image is new, the world is new.
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